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Re:KolibriOS – operating system written entirely in assembly... by DagAgren on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @06:51AM (#22876320)
64 MB is absolutely gigantic if we are talking about assembly code. So that is not "nuff said" by any measure, it is a completely irrelevant factoid that tells us nothing at all?
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Re:KolibriOS – operating system written entirely in assembly... by snvzz on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @07:13AM (#22876441)
>64 MB is absolutely gigantic if we are talking about assembly code.

Likely due to the inclusion of source code and some non-core stuff actually written in c.

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Re:KolibriOS – operating system written entirely in assembly... by BenjiWiebe on Friday April 17, 2020 @11:28AM (#22899853)
64MB is gigantic, period. TinyCore Linux is what, 11MB?
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Re:KolibriOS – operating system written entirely in assembly... by qwerty456127 on Monday April 20, 2020 @04:50PM (#22928386)
Does that include a window manager?
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